Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strauss explained the crisis of the West more cogently and powerfully than any teacher of his time. In doing so, he sought to help us preserve what remains of justice and excellence in the world and ward off the descent into tyranny and degradation...
...eerie purgatory. The patients in the ward, says Heymann, sat "sunk in listless dejection" or "crawled about on their knees or stood on chairs and howled." Eventually transferred to a section for the less disturbed, Pound was allowed to see visitors for two hours a day. They came by the score: Thornton Wilder, Robert Lowell, Katherine Ann Porter, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot. During the last eleven years of Pound's commitment, America's most illustrious literary salon was conducted in a madhouse...
...said the conservatives had lost to reformers in Tuesday's election for ward committee posts, and are worried about maintaining their power
Feinberg is one of the three candidates chosen February 6 by vote of the Democratic City Committee's eleven ward committees. City Manager James L. Sullivan must select one to replace Burns...
...poor weather had little effect on the turnout in Cambridge, which was surprisingly high. For example, 595 people, mostly Harvard affiliates, voted at the Ward 6, Precinct 3 station at the Fire House at Broadway and Quincy Street...